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Dirty Greek - Ahmed Chalabi - no longer U.S. lackey

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So, some of the biggest news out of Iraq today is a coalition raid on the home of Ahmad Chalabi, who was instrumental in convincing the U.S. that Saddam had WMDs. Of course, Chalabi did this because his interest wasn't that of the Iraqi people, but of his own power and a want to return to Iraq after being exiled for decades.

So, only a few months ago Chalabi was a great friend of the coalition, and now he's being raided and a gun is being held to his head by coalition soldiers. This sounds oddly familiar - almost like the story of his old enemy, Saddam, who was a great friend of the American government during his war on Iran until he decided to go against our orders. Well, considering the circumstances here, there's probably a similar story. I was curious what Chalabi did to piss us off, and I came up with a few reasons.

Firstly, he made the grave mistake of questioning U.S. tactics and

^"insisted on Sunday that Iraqis must control security and development funds after the United States transfers sovereignty June 30.

Speaking in Baghdad, Ahmed Chalabi also said an agreement governing the operations of American and other foreign troops in the country must be negotiated by a sovereign Iraqi government.

Also, a Chalabi aide made their objections to the coalition's plans known. There's likely much more to the story than all of this, but these articles and others hint at Chalabi's fall from grace in the eyes of the coalition and provide good insight to Chalabi's mistakes. It just goes to show, once again, that if you fuck with the United State's occupations, you don't get to fuck with them for long.

Finally, Andrew Cockburn says that Chalabi was planning a Coup.